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  • Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership

    Communities and Social Change from Below

    by Marc Parés, Joan Subirats, Sonia M. Ospina ...
    While liberal-representative democracies tend to conform to a consensus-based post-political paradigm where there is no space for alternatives and dissensus; new forms of democracy in practice are emerging from below. This book explores new socially innovative initiatives that have appeared following the 2011 global uprisings. Initiatives that flourish not only as alternative responses to current ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Promise Me, Dad

    A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

    by Joe Biden ...
    The instant #1 New York Times bestseller: From President Joe Biden, a deeply moving memoir about the year that would change both a family and a country.In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal

    The Making of Tony Abbott

    by David Marr ...
    Series Book 47 - Quarterly Essay
    Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott was already a brutally effective politician. He later led the way in defeating the republic and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Includes a critical essay on "The Thought and Writing of Machiavelli as a product of Renaissance Culture." Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had lead to the modern world as we know it. His assertion was that the head ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • What We Won

    America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979-89

    by Bruce Riedel ...
    In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history.In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Retaking America

    Crushing Political Correctness

    by Nick Adams ...
    Political correctness has ripped through America, turning life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into lifelessness, suppression and the pursuit of mediocrity. Meanwhile, Europe is in its death throes, completely infected by the political correctness disease.Australian Nick Adams believes only America has the cure. But the race is on. Will America be able to save itself in time, and lead a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power Crisis

    The Self-Destruction of a State Labor Party

    by Rodney Cavalier ...
    Written by former minister and Labor historian Rodney Cavalier, Power Crisis is an explosive account of the self-destruction of the New South Wales Labor government, which has seen a turnover of four premiers in five years, and is heading for rejection and even humiliation by voters at the next state election. While the catalyst was the thwarted attempt to privatise electricity, Cavalier reveals ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Conversations With Stalin

    by Milovan Djilas ...
    A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Development Aid Confronts Politics

    The Almost Revolution

    by Thomas Carothers, Diane de Gramont ...
    A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically.Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life

    With a New Afterword

    by Roger Owen ...
    The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life exposes for the first time the origins and dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century.Presidents who ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • King of Kings

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

    by Asfa-Wossen Asserate ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War II and was a messianic figure for the Jamaican Rastafarians. But the final years of his empire saw turmoil and revolution, and he was ultimately ... Read more

    $16.59 USD